Chapter Forty-Six: The Hundred-Armed Giant Egaeon
The gunboat lowered its altitude as soon as it entered the mountains, and a huge gap suddenly opened in the side of a mountain peak not far from Fisher, revealing a long runway with flashing warning lights inside.
"Welcome to Motherbase! Sir! The pilot skillfully landed the gunboat on the runway and raised two fingers at Fisher in a coquettish American military salute.
"Good technique! Lieutenant! Fisher shook hands with the other and jumped out of the cabin to greet him.
"The last time I came, it was still one runway, you guys were fast enough, and now it's four!"
"After all, we have a bunch of big guys now, we have to make the opening wider, otherwise it will be easy to get stuck in traffic!" Behind him was his student and secretary, Dr. Olivia, a scholar of quantum mechanics and space development, and it seemed to Fisher that this Dr. Olivia was an avid mechanical enthusiast, drooling over the semi-mechanized Mountain Muir Hayden.
"Speaking of which, this thing has already swallowed us by almost 100 billion!" Kate looked at the F52 fighter parked in the hangar and was moved.
"It's going to be worth the money, ma'am!" Olivia turned her head and said seriously, "This thing can re-establish the world order!" ”
Kate, who is the big butler of the giant god, was still having a headache for the huge financial investment, but Olivia's lady made her heart flutter.
"I hope so!"
After the Titan contracted this area, tens of thousands of engineering teams started working day and night, almost hollowing out the interior of the entire mountain range, which contained almost all the important facilities including dry docks, laboratories, and military production lines.
After half an hour of racing along the cool and swishing passage, the scene in front of everyone's eyes suddenly opened up.
"What is this?" Kate smelled the faint smell of sea in the air, and suddenly became a little excited.
"Our dock No. 1 is here, and here is our Egaeon!" "Outside the dry dock is the artificial lake we have built, and once Egaeon is built, it will set sail from here!" ”
"Artificial lake, but I smell the smell of sea!" Kate was puzzled.
"The artificial lake is brought in by us from the sea, and it is also the source of water for the base, and we have built a total of four seawater purification plants to meet the daily needs of the base, and even have spare power to supply nearby cities!"
"Is that Egaion?" Kate was now caught by a massive metal artifact in the dry dock.
The Hundred-armed Giant was the child of Gaia and Ouranos, and there were three of them, named Briareos, Kotos, and Gugeth. They were all gigantic and ferocious monsters, even bigger than Titans and Cyclops.
Shortly after their birth, their father, Ouranos, saw that they were ugly monsters and disliked them, which led to their subsequent encounter. They were imprisoned in Tartarus by Kronos, and later, after Zeus's rebellion, the hundred-armed giant made a py deal with him to help him overthrow his father, and in the Iliad, Homer mentions a story that is not found in other Greek mythology: some Olympian gods, represented by Poseidon and Athena, attempted to overthrow Zeus. But Thetis, the goddess of the sea, brought in a hundred-armed giant to protect Zeus, defeating the rebellion of the gods. The gods of this hundred-armed giant called it Briareus, and the humans called it Egaeon.
In the world of Ace Air Combat VI, there is also a behemoth called Egaeon, that is, the Estovakia Navy's p112 air cruise control aircraft, this behemoth was originally conceived to use carrier-based aircraft and cruise missiles as weapons to control a large area of airspace, thinking that Fisher wasted the boss's strength in order to get the drawings of this thing, first in the war desperately mixed into the position of the ace, and then was selected by the Estovakia Navy to become one of the members of the p112 carrier aircraft, That's when I got all the information on P112.
"With a wingspan of 963.77m, a total length of 433.3m, a height of 102.39m, it can carry 72 F52 fighters, and it has 7 "barewheel" cruise missile silos, I hardly think that there will be anything bigger in this world! Sammuir's face was full of accomplishment, and he watched as this thing was being built day by day.
"Not necessarily, Dr. Hayden, don't talk so much!" Fisher remembers that Hydra built such a large transcontinental bomber during World War II, although the power source is the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, but he is such a big butterfly as soon as he is excited, I am afraid that both S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra will blow up.
But it doesn't matter to Fisher whether they blow up or not, in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is false, unless you have both strong strength and intrigue and trickery, such as Detective Sherlock's Dormammu, I am here to negotiate.
"How's it going?" Fisher leaned against the railing on the heights, and the dense crowd of engineers and machinery was as small as ants.
"The keel has just been completed, and the internal structure is still very slow! After all, we came step by step according to the revised drawings, and only built a verification machine of less than 100 meters before, which confirmed the perfection of the technology, and there are two little guys next door who are also doing it, and there is a shortage of manpower, after all, we must not only progress but also pay attention to confidentiality! Mountain Muir complained.
"Emmm, C6, how's your research?"
"The reverse of C6 is still not completed, but there is no problem with imitation, but I dare not guarantee the safety!"
"Then let's imitate a few hundred, a small-scale experiment, if there is no problem, directly mass production, those robots can do more!"
"Understood, I'll arrange it as soon as possible!"
"Alright, let's go see how the big birds are doing!" Fisher patted the railing and led the way to the next door.
Less than two kilometers from this dry dock was a huge workshop, and here there was a large treasure more than two hundred meters wider than Egaeon, but not as long as it, and the sparks that the engineers cut and fell from it like raindrops.
"Armament Giant Bird, Arsenal Bird, seriously, drones can develop to this point, it is estimated that there will be nothing to do with our pilots in the future!" This time, Olivia was introduced.
"No, Doctor, drones will not replace manned aircraft, never, war cannot become a button to kill the opponent, that kind of war will not satisfy their desires!"
"That's right, in fact, in the operation of the arsenal bird, we have adopted two sets of modes, one set of remote ground control, the other is the pilot's manual operation, in order to prevent the drone from being hacked remotely, we also set a one-key remote network disconnection mode, but once it is activated, this thing has to rely on the joint efforts of four pilots to fly!"
"So, these two things have eaten up two-thirds of our revenue over the years, right?" Kate calculated the huge number, and she already wanted to scold her mother.
"Yes, but their maintenance costs will be relatively low, especially Egeon, we only use fusion reactors for energy, once operational, the maintenance costs will be similar to a Nimitz aircraft carrier and a half!"
"Well, seriously, Fisher, didn't you really build these things to rule America?" Before Kate's words fell, the rest of the guys immediately had a golden light in their eyes.
"Ruling the United States? How can it be? Such a big mess, who wants it! Fisher waved his hand.
"Alas!" Hearing his boss's speech, several scientists were quite disappointed, most of them were recruited by Fisher because they were unsociable or unsatisfactory, and naturally they did not have a good impression of the United States, especially Dr. Shanmuir Hayden, who was kicked out of the institute after he had this disease, and the family's mansion and luxury car were also recovered.
"But if you want to unify the world, I have a name in mind, if there is really that day, Blue Star will be renamed the Interstellar Federation, referred to as the Star Federation, and then build a space station in outer space and name it Citadel!" After hearing the speech of their own boss, the few people who were still disappointed just now immediately came to their senses.
"Don't think about it, just those three melons and two dates on the earth are not enough for me to build these forces, our goal is the sea of stars, these are just hors d'oeuvres, and when we are proficient, we should build a big guy who can really sail in deep space!"
"So, sir, when will the aliens you mentioned come to Earth?"
"It will be two or three years in short, seven or eight years in the longest, and then we will face the life and death of a race! And these are the necessities that buy us time! Fisher gestured to the Giant Bird of Ordnance at his feet.
Because of the earlier construction time, this ordnance giant bird codenamed Freedom has completed the construction of the main body, the power system has also been installed, and now the final finishing touches are underway, if nothing else, two months later, it can soar into the sky, as for the other one codenamed Justice, because the current heat dissipation problem of the pulse energy cannon and laser cannon has not been solved, so the progress of justice can only be suspended, and when Fisher gets vibranium, justice can only be built.
"By the way, sir, I took the time to make a sample of the explosive weapon you mentioned earlier, do you want to see it?" After inspecting the basic situation of the three big guys, Shanmuir Hayden remembered a self-defense weapon that Fisher had proposed to him earlier, and hurriedly said.
"Oh, you said you got a sample?"
"Yes, according to your orders, nineteenmm caliber, rocket propulsion, diamond warhead, but what kind of prayer you said, I don't have any tools at hand, so I didn't depict it, but I made the shell specially refined!"
"Hurry up, bring it and let me be well!" Fishel was overjoyed and hurriedly commanded.